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--(Marketwire - March 04, 2013) - AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Red 5 Studios, developer of free-to-play online games designed to connect millions of players around the world, has deployed an AMD SeaMicro server with the SeaMicro Freedom(TM) fabric to power a high-performance mobile gaming unit (MGU.) The MGU, which is a 48-foot bus, was created as part of the launch for its new game "FireFall," an award-winning sci-fi massively multiplayer online (MMO) shooter. The result is a mobile vehicle that can support up to 3,000 simultaneous players in one location and connect gamers from any location to millions of others around the world.
Red 5 Studios selected the revolutionary SeaMicro SM10000-XE(TM) server for its high-performance system, power efficiency and a compact form factor to accommodate the space and power constraints of the MGU. When evaluating other vendors, they found that power efficiency and a small footprint came at the sacrifice of other critical capabilities such as high computing performance and high low-latency bandwidth. AMD's SeaMicro SM10000-XE delivered the required performance without sacrifice.
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SME10000-XE specs:
http://www.seamicro.com/products/SM10000XE
Processor
Total No. of Processors per system 64
No. of Processors per Compute Card 1
No. of Compute Cards per system
Processor Specification
Quad Core, Octal Thread x86 Sandy Bridge Processor
Intel E3-1260L
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Nice to see the winds of change at AMD.
--(Marketwire - March 04, 2013) - AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Red 5 Studios, developer of free-to-play online games designed to connect millions of players around the world, has deployed an AMD SeaMicro server with the SeaMicro Freedom(TM) fabric to power a high-performance mobile gaming unit (MGU.) The MGU, which is a 48-foot bus, was created as part of the launch for its new game "FireFall," an award-winning sci-fi massively multiplayer online (MMO) shooter. The result is a mobile vehicle that can support up to 3,000 simultaneous players in one location and connect gamers from any location to millions of others around the world.
Red 5 Studios selected the revolutionary SeaMicro SM10000-XE(TM) server for its high-performance system, power efficiency and a compact form factor to accommodate the space and power constraints of the MGU. When evaluating other vendors, they found that power efficiency and a small footprint came at the sacrifice of other critical capabilities such as high computing performance and high low-latency bandwidth. AMD's SeaMicro SM10000-XE delivered the required performance without sacrifice.
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SME10000-XE specs:
http://www.seamicro.com/products/SM10000XE
Processor
Total No. of Processors per system 64
No. of Processors per Compute Card 1
No. of Compute Cards per system
Processor Specification
Quad Core, Octal Thread x86 Sandy Bridge Processor
Intel E3-1260L
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Nice to see the winds of change at AMD.